The Product Question

Raise your hand if you’ve ever shipped something on time, on budget, technically clean — and nobody used it.

Yeah. Me too. And …

Thinking Like Product

When did you last speak directly to a customer? How do you get user feedback? What’s your riskiest assumption about user behavior? How …

Start Boring Scale Deliberately

The microservices versus monolith debate has been going on for years. What strikes me is how often teams are arguing about the wrong thing, …

Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture

When is monolithic architecture better than microservices, and vice versa? What are the trade-offs between the two? What makes it worth …

Networking Advice for Technology Leaders

There is a lot of standard advice about networking, mostly boring anecdotes intended to inspire you. They fall somewhere between business …

Networking for Technology Leaders

How can you get the most out of your network? How do you grow it? Where do you look for networking opportunities? What makes for a good …

The Agentic SDLC: Beyond the Coding Bottleneck

In the modern software development landscape, we are facing a Productivity Paradox. While AI has significantly accelerated the act of …

AI SDLC

How does AI affect your existing SDLC? What changes have you made to leverage AI more effectively? What impact have you observed from these …

Lightning Talk: AI Adoption Without Vast Tech Debt

Software development looks very different today, and I no longer think about tech debt the same way. I group my approach to minimizing …

AI Adoption Without Vast Tech Debt

How do you manage AI adoption? How do you avoid AI slop? How do you take advantage of increased output without becoming swamped by tech …